Beyond the conceivable : studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust /
The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, have been collected in this English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires and epistemologically distinct approach.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| ISBN: | 9780520920842 0520920848 0585391750 9780585391755 9780520213456 0520213459 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. On the Brink of Dictatorship; 2. Knowledge of Expansion: On the Geopolitics of Karl Haushofer; 3. Norms for Domination: Nazi Legal Concepts of World Order; 4. The Catastrophe before the Catastrophe:; 5. The Limits of Reason; 6. Beyond the Conceivable; 7. Historical Understanding and Counterrationality; 8. On Rationality and Rationalization; 9. Historical Experience and Cognition; 10. Varieties of Narration; 11. Nazism and Stalinism; 12. Cumulative Contingency; 13. On Guilt Discourse and Other Narrations; Notes; Index.